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Big maintenance day, I kept putting it off.
Two largest tanks, both got a severe trim. There is so much light and space it is crazy now 🙂
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So the one easiest to downsize would be a 25 liter that maybe has some leftover indostomus paradoxus that I thought died out but I saw one recently. It also houses two clown killifish for hopeful breeding though so far no luck. This is one of the new glass.
On the same shelf is an old 40 liter that houses the remaining 6 clown killifish and three recently purchased dario hysginon, one may be females most likely not though. Two males spar too much so I though about rehoming one for sure somewhere.
Another old tank is a 60 liter cube that i am most disappointed in, as most of the fish hide now. It has two dario, maybe one female and for sure one male. Some pygmy codydoras that disappointed me heavily, though maybe I didn't provide the correct environment for them. It also has a group of 11 least rasboras that are stunning and until month or two ago were not shy. The tank also has algae issue cause it is powered by an ikea lamp and the window. The cabinets it stands on most likely will not support a heavier tank though it is a shame cause i could get a larger one and maybe group some tanks together.
An older but not bad tank, maybe in bad location and badly scaped houses my beloved pseudomugil luminatus. They are shy fish and look best in dim lighting, so that works but the tank is not nice to look at. It also has rabbit snails which means no other plants survive and no other fish can be added. I already gave half away, I am considering giving the rest except the oldest snail as it is not gift able anymore.
My two larger ones are ok-ish. One is no heater rocks and full of moss. 40 or so white cloud minnows, 7 panda garra, one last sewellia and so much shrimp it ain't funny.
The largest tank is questionable. Remaining group of hatchetfish, sort of new group of pearl gouramis, new trio of guppies i took from someone. Remaining part of ember tetras i can't give away and same with rummynose (would never catch those). Lovely bolivian ram (four of them, great group) and for me boring sterbai codydoras that may have internal parasites and recently acquired pepper cory that is three times as large as the other cories. Several otocinclus. Forgot the not so long ago added kuhlis loaches that are actually active, but only five survived. Don't love the plants but rescaping means tearing it all down. Might be a fun project.
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Thank you everyone. I meant a new tank to replace one of the older ones not get another one.
I am sort of on the fence of giving fish away as i tried few times and people don't keep fish in the correct environment and last time i offered a fish i had no takers, even for free!
I don't enjoy aquarium plants nor do I have the lights/green thumb for it. Most of my plants are low maintenance, i don't do any co2 not much fertilizing. I already have a lot of indoor plants and I have a garden with vegetables and I am not a gardening enthusiast at all :))
I travel a bit too much for new pet so that is out of the question and I was vetoed all of the ones I asked for, no chickens, guinea pigs, snakes... But a solid advice.
another slight problem i have is, some of the fish species i have i havent had for long and i don't like giving them away because i have not experienced all of their behaviors. I think it would help if I wrote what I have exactly as I see downsizing as a slight problem. Most of the fun fish are the ones in the smallest tanks :))
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So I am suffering from a fishkeeping burnout. I still like my fish and will watch them, but I am not in love and having fun now.
It started a month or two ago when we were considering moving, so I decided to stop any remakes or purchases to any of my tanks and started looking at how to downsize or what to do and how to move, if even.
We now do not need to move, so I do not need to downsize or tear down, but I still dont know. I have two old tanks that can break at any point. I am not happy with at least two of my tanks, and other two need work, but I am unsure what work and if I am feeling up to it.
For those of you who experienced it, how did you handle?
I have 6 tanks. I still do maintenance, I still feed, I still hatch live food, I have a fry I am raising, but there is also algae, one of the tanks needs a moss trim ( and has been needing it for months now), one tank looks empty cause balance in it shifted and I am unsure why. I am not super excited at any of my fish at the moment. The fish I like the most is barely visible in a tank that doesnt look nice to me anymore but I dont even have a good picture, as the tank is in a location where there is such a light glare all pictures are unusable. The only tank I could easily tear down is the smallest one and the newest glass, so that makes no sense.
Should I wait for the mood to come back? Should I have a talk with some fishkeepers which way to go? Will that motivate me? Should I purchase new tank and remake and regroup some fish? I just dont know. And the more "advanced" you are in fishkeeping the less answers you receive in any forums or for any questions asked and it always leaves me so sad.
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On 5/28/2024 at 2:19 PM, Whitecloud09 said:
For minnows in a 5, 6 is going to be the best number, 7 is ok too, but 6 is the best amount of WCMMs. Not to much, and not little of them, give them a lot of coverage and a good diet and i believe this would be the best fish for a 5g. Shrimp and WCMMs can get along actually pretty good, so i think some cherry shrimp or any kind would be great @CoryWithAKatana! And the gold ones, man that would pop. I am jealous as i dont have any places local for gold minnows, but they are as easy to keep as normal white clouds. If you didnt have shrimp i would say snail but shrimp is prob a good choice for algae and such. (if u have one that eats algae that is)
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WCMM are 4-5 cm long fish. I see mine chase each other the full 110cm length of my tank. They are not some 2cm fish. You cant cram 6 4cm fish to a barely 40 cm long tank. That is prison cell size for such a large fish.
The gold strains have genetic issues, in the year and a half I have had the gold, I lost around 10 fish for no apparent reason, once in a month, in a span of see issue, in 5 days tops the fish is gone. In the half a year I have the normal strain, I didnt lose a single one. Others have similar experience with the golds.
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5 gallon is basically unsuitable for any fish, except MAYBE a mellow betta if you make sure it is entertained, but then you wont have shrimp in it 🙂
Make a nice shrimp colony and add an interesting snail perhaps
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Hi guysI have a 60 liter cube tank, 40x40x40cm that I set up last summer. In November I added group of corydoras pygmeus, lost some, not sure what happened, not sure how many are left. In December I added 12 least rasboras, lost one. Took a month and they were comfortable, always at the front right space, active, not shy, not skittish. This is how the tank looked
Since then I had a hornwort meltdown, way more moss, some algae, and in March I have added two dario hysginon from another tank. They live mostly right back corner, center back corner, you can hardly see them unless food is involved. They are about the same size as the least rasboras, I saw no agrression towards any of the fish (neither in the other tank I have them in, they are not as aggressive as normal dario)But since april I have not seen my rasboras. They all hang out in the left back corner, under the anubias, under the hornwort, they swim up front when they see food, but otherwise the tank is completely empty. If they were bullied by the darios I would suspect them hang out at the front where the darios are not. Since march I lost few pygmy corydoras that got stuck behind the filter on the right side and I also added an willow branch on the left and back side.The tank looks like this now from the front
and from the right side
It has way more algae I know. Is it the dario? Something I did? I checked the temp on the right front side ( as heater is on the left back side) and teperatures match. I am sad, I miss my rasboras, they are super bright and lovelyThanks, tips appreaciated
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On 5/21/2024 at 5:35 PM, Chris said:
I had good luck when raising pseudomugil Cyanodorsalis fry by using vinegar eels, Sera micron, microworms, and eventually baby brine. As hatchlings, even the eels are a bit big, but I've seen them rip them in half and even eat eels that are longer than the fry are. The Sera micron was just pecked at, but kept them alive on days when I was short on live food or didn't have time to do a full feeding.
I feed basically the same if I think about it, except I have hikari first bites and when it was bit larger, just grinded whatever else. But the first bite doesnt sink, and if the fry is too scared to go to the surface, was a bit tricky. I will feed it again tomorrow 🙂
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SO once again I managed to have a fry and I am unsure what to do with it right now. I collected pseudomugil luminatus egg around the beginning of May. I checked my infusoria bucket (1liter tops with moss and not changed water) last week and figured ok, didnt take. This week however, I have a fry. It is ofcourse super tiny, like a pin top, basically all the fish is just an eye.
Now what shall I do next. I trust the bucket has some infusoria enough to sustain it for a little while, I try feeding microworms, I think they are still too large.
I can move the fry to a 4 liter box to which I can put moss and plants and established water, but no filter.
I have a 10 liter box with filter and moss and plants that has been running, but tbh, I think it is a bit too large for the fry at this very moment.
How much longer should I keep the fry in the infusoria bucket? Should I move it to the liter box and do daily water changes plus feeding with the water from the infusoria bucket? What are the guidlines for raising this tiny tiny fish? I managed to keep the last one alive in the one liter box for 7 weeks before moving to adult tank at a reasonable size, but I moved it right away when I found it and I have no idea how long it was in the infusoria bucket 🙂
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Updated tank pictures and the darios
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Not much to say. I am doing regular maintenace but not changing anything on any of the tanks
I have adopted two guppy females and a male, I am adding them after a short quarantine, due to weather drop, I dont have an extra heater and the quarantine is 17 degrees, while the main tank is 25. I did a massive water change and slowly acclimating both the guppies and the corydoras paleatus female
Nothing new, good or bad or otherwise
Funny story, temp acclimating guppies I put a large box into the closest tank, and in few minutes, I find pseudomugil luminatus in the box. It was not an easy jump either!!
same container, look at the size !!!
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Thank you.
Now i need to decide what to do with it 🙂
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Someone was getting rid of their fish and said they have a sterbai corydoras, and I said great, will include it in my shoal of 13 in my 360 litersWhat they gave me is no sterbai, and I doubt it is even a corydoras. Not great pictures, taken in a temp ikea box that is a quarantine. Will try to take moreIt has easily 8 cm tooPlease help me identify the fishThank you
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I dont do much water tests. I know I should, and I have some tests and would once a six month do one, so I will do a test before next water change to check.
I do a weekly 25%, as that is the norm I know I "should" do with every other week substrate vacuum. In the beginning like two years ago, I had issues with muck and corydoras infections. Also the wood is natural and ofcourse, is decomposing, so occasionally, though not so much lately since i replaced the wood, there would be particles in the water/plants/substrate.
I think the biggest problem will be feeding, I have to "overfeed" some fish, as they dont let anything fall down to the corydoras/kuhli loaches. If I remove those and leave just the good eaters, b-rams, pearl gouramis, rummynose tetras, maybe add the pseudomugil from the other tank, those will be ok with an automatic feeder and dry food. I now feed mostly frozen/live and some dry, but I could always feed frozen/live when I come back, I can do a deeper cleaning, and in the meantime have a dry feeding regime
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Hi guys
in the upcoming few month/half a year/a year, there will come a situation, where I will move, and I will also travel more, leaving my place for weeks/months at a time.
I obviously realize this will not be doable with six fish tanks, especially not with the nano fish I keep or the live only food fish I have. However, in CZ especially, it is super popular to have a no water change tanks, walstad method tanks, father fish tank methods, super jungle only put water in tanks that are running for 15 years with populations of wild live bearers,.... I know it should be possible, but I understand research and prep are needed.
I have to make a choice - either start converting the largest tank I have - a 360liters one, into something that could work with no water changes for a longer periods of time or at some point, get rid of all of my tanks and my fish, which is like a last resort option.
I understand the way my tank is set up now - only sand substrate and a small layer at that, not a great light, not that many plants,... will not work like that. I know it needs to be set up in a different way, and it needs time to mature before it can reach the no water change stage. That is why I need to do some serious reading, prep and a battle plan.
Therefore, any articles/help/directions are appreciated
Tank pic now of the largest tank
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Zucchini party. Not the intended audience though 🙂
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Actually I do not, I have dario hysginon which is a red melon, not tiger
I have nicely colored ones as I have multiple in each tank, I MAY have one female, but I highly doubt it. They are not aggressive at all towards other fish, not even during feeding, they do chase each other upon sight though, but even if they catch each other, they flare their fins and one of them leaves.
- here is a feeding video I just made, you can see no aggression toward clown killifish, even when feeding. Same with pygmy corydoras and least rasboras in the other tank.
To be fully honest, I was so hyped about them, but if you watch the video, I have three fish in the tank, you can barely see one, maybe two, they are almost always static or hidden and even when feeding they are slow moving and start stopping. They so far display zero interesting behavior towards each other or other fish. They look lovely and are shrimp/other fish safe, for now.
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I made a quick feeding video, darios in the clown killifish tank. Slow eaters. Looking at them now, I think my largest ember tetras are about as large as the darios. Strange
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I think the ammonia is coming from elsewhere, like leaching from the rock decorations or substrate and is not related to the cycle perhaps. I have heard about wood leaching it or silicone from old tanks. Couldnt this be the case?
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While the ammonia issue you reported having will be helped by adding floating plants ( salvinia or frogbit would be my best guess), you also have mild algae issues and overall not too many plants that they are not doing well. You should be prepared while the floaters will leach out the excess, they will also take whatever your other plants could have used, and they will thus continue to decline
I know you are excited about new fish, I personally do not agree with your choice of the fish you want to add and would also overall wait before adding more, until you reach at least a bit of stable environment. You can always add fish later on and it will be something to look forward to, but you have not correct substrate for corydoras, wilting plants, algae and ammonia issues as is, and you will be adding possible fish illness issues, feeding issues and the inevitable plants nutrition issues, if you add floaters.
But that is just my opinion and we overall learn best from our mistakes and I made the same ones as you
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Today was the day. After heavy feeding live bbs both the fry and the parents tank, I moved the fry to the parents tank. It is about 1/4 of the adult size, and it integrated beautifully
It is now swimming alongside the others, so yay
Good news, everyone survived my vacation (including me, given we managed to catch the worse possible weather which included snow, at the end of April). I am hoping the eggs I collected last week will hatch out in the bucket in the next few weeks and I will keep the cube for pseudomugil fry
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Hi guys. I have an ikea box, 40x30x15 cm or so. I use it to store leftover plants now, i have a sponge filter available and I was wondering:
Can I put a trio of sterbai corydoras and hope for a breeding action?
Other fish that I have and could try if sterbais would not work are: ember tetras, rummynose tetras, few pygmy corydoras, least rasboras. Everything else is either too big or too young or I don't want to breed that (white cloud minnows)
Thanks!
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Panda garra appreciation pic
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Some pictures of my shrimp, i bought culls and clear but the color morphs are fun
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Stcoking for shallow 10 gallon.
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One will soon have issues with overpopulation and aggression in such a small tank with multies.
I have similar but higher for my group of pseudomugil luminatus, they are great but also jumpers. Clown killifish, same story, look awesome, utilize mostly the top but some lower parts of the tank too